1. Prelude Fields Related to Wave Mechanics
     Ocean Engineering: Ship, water borne transport,
offshore structures (platforms). 
   
   Navy: Military activity, amphibious operation,
WW II Allies landing.
Coastal Engineering: Harbor and ports, dredging, coastal structures,
beach erosion, sediment transport.
Oceanography: Ocean environment, atmosphere, fishing, oil spilling, mixing, pollutant transport.
     Environmental Eng.: Capping contaminated dredged material Diffusion and dispersion of toxic material in ocean and costal water.

2. Contents Review: Fundamentals of Linear wave Theory and
Basic Nonlinear Wave Theory
Theory: a) Weakly Nonlinear Wave Theory.
Perturbation Methods: ) Mode Coupling Method (MCM),
2) Phase Modulation Method (PMM),
3) others.
b) Finite Amplitude Wave Theory
Physics a) Weak or Resonant Wave-Wave Interactions.
Wave Instability, energy transfer and WAM.
   b) Strong Wave-Wave Interaction.
Bound Wave, Wave Modulation and
Second-order and Third-order Solutions.   

3. Application: 1) Hybrid Wave Models:
Decomposition and Prediction.
2) Scientific and Engineering Applications.
Wave Kinematics, pressure and elevation.
Wave data Analyses.
     
   Extension: Linear theory  Weakly non-linear theory 
Finite amplitude wave theory.
Periodic Wave  Narrow banded wave 
Broad-banded wave theory.